Affirmative Action and the University: A Philosophical Inquiry

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About the Authors RICHARD J. ARNESON is a professor of philosophy at the University of California at San Diego. He has held visiting appointments at California Institute of Technology and the University of California at Davis. He has written papers on philosopllical ideas in literature, on the interpretation of the works of John Stuart Mill and Karl Marx, and on contemporary theories of justice, where his current research interests lie. He is an associate editor of the jotlrnal Ethics and a member of the board of editorial consultants for N01\10S, the annual yearbook of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy. TOM L. BEAUCHAMP is a professor of philosophy at Georgetown University . He is the author of Philosophical Ethics (2nd ed., 1991), and co-author of A History and Theory of Informed Consent (1986), Principles of Biomedical Ethics (3rd ed., 1989), and Hunle and the Problem of Causation (1981). He is general editor of the critical edition of the literary, political, and philosophical works of Hume. LAWRENCE C. BECKER is a professor of pllilosophy and Kenan Professor of Humanities at the College of William and Mary. He is the editor, with Charlotte Becker, of the Encyclopedia of Ethics (1992) and the author of several books, including Property Rights (1977, 1980) and Reciprocity (1986, 1990). STEVEN M. CAHN is a professor of philosophy and former provost and vice-president for academic affairs at tl:le Graduate School of the City University of New York. Previously h€~ taught at Vassar College, New York University, and the University of 'lermont, where he chaired 302 About the Authors the Department of Philosophy. He is the author of Fate, Logic, and Time (1967), A New Introduction to Philosophy (1971), The Eclipse of Excellence (1973), Education and the Democratic Ideal (1979), Saints and Scamps: Ethics in Academia (1986), and Philosophical Explorations: Freedom, God and Goodness (1989). He has edited eight other volumes, including The Philosophical Foundations of Education (1970), Scholars Who Teach: The Art of College Teachi1:g (1978), Classics of Western Philosophy (3rd ed., 1990), and Morality, Responsibility, and the University: Studies in Academic Ethics (1990). RICHARD T. DE GEORGE is University Distinguished Professor at the University of Kansas. He is the author or editor of sixteen books, including Business Ethics (3rd ed., 1990) and The Nature and Limits of Authority (1985), and the author of over a hundred scholarly articles on ethical theory, applied ethics, and social and political philosophy. He is a past president of the American Philosophical Association and of the Metaphysical Society of America, and a past vice president of the International Federation of Philosophical Societies. LESLIE PICKERING FRANCIS is a professor of law and an associate professor of philosophy at the University of Utah. She is the author of a number of papers on the philosophy of law and bioethics and is currently at work on a book titled Legitimate Expectations. In 1990-91, she served as the first elected faculty chair of the academic senate at the University of Utah. ALAN H. GOLDMAN is a professor of philosophy and chairman of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Miami. He is author of Moral Knowledge (1988), Empirical Knowledge (1988), The Moral Foundations of Professional Ethics (1980), and Justice and Reverse Discrimination (1979) and has contributed to many philosophical journals. KAREN HANSON is a professor of philosophy and an adjunct professor of both American studies and women's studies at Indiana University. She served as secretary treasurer of the central division of the American Philosophical Association. She is the author of The Self Imagined: Philosophical Reflections on the Social Character of Psyche (1986) and coeditor of Romantic Revolutions-Theory and Practice (1990), and she has published journal articles on a variety of topics in philosophy of mind, ethics, and aesthetics. About the Authors 303 ANN HARTLE is an associate professor of philosophy at Emory University . She is the author of The Modern Self in Rousseau's Confessions (1983) and Death and the Disinterested Spectator: An Inquiry into the Nature of Philosophy (1986). JOHN KEKES is a professor of philosophy aJ1d public policy at the State University of New York at Albany. He is the author of A Justification of Rationality (1976), The Nature of Philosophy (1980), The Examined Life (1987), Moral Tradition and Individuality (1989), and Facing Evil (1990). He is a frequent contributor to scholarly journals on moral, political, and epistemological topics. JOEL J...